The darkness, for generations the time when they moved about and raided with impunity, had suddenly become deadly.

This sometimes pleasant land of magic was becoming steadily more deadly.

The war continued on long after that, becoming more deadly over the years.

But this time, the sham has become deadly.

Then his voice dropped, became low and deadly.

"Why do you suppose everything has become violent and deadly so abruptly?"

Japanese air opposition, intensifying since the early part of the Philippine campaign, was becoming more deadly.

But the virus had suddenly become much more deadly.

"But why would an adoption become so deadly?"

It was interrupted though by a confrontation between the two feuding factions that came very close to becoming deadly.